My name is David and I make computer animation.
TAGS
animation, computers, internet, 3d, cats, chronic depression, stories, independent film-making, more cats, trauma, low-art, Berlin, talking animals, theory, dreams, drama, compression, nonsense, rendering, artificiality, aesthetics, suicide, symbolic representation, narrative, experimental, cats, paper, computer, software, bsod, error, mspaint, lofi, sss, author, auteur, pop culture, fine art, narcissism, pretentiousness, dramaturgy, love, hallucination, jpeg, mov, mpeg, Ireland, Kilkenny, 1985, serial gen, crack, torrents, cinema, anarchy, color-space, z-space, real time, anti-aliasing, aliasing, xxx, walt disney, simulation, distractions, internet etc.
PRESS & ARTICLES
Scruff Daddy (aug 09)
Promo News (aug 09)
Rolling Stone (july 09)
Slate (july 09)
Animation Magazine (june 09)
Electric Sheep (june 09)
Objects (june 09)
Boards (may 09)
DE:BUG (may 09)
CG world China (may 09)
Style Mag (apr 09)
Film Ireland (apr 09)
Motionographer post/interview (mar 09)
BoingBoing feature (feb 09)
Jotta Feature (feb 09)
Variety, Cartoon Brew, Indiewire, Zoomy (feb 09)
Cartoon Brew best online animation 08 (dec 08)
Elniuton magazine (nov 08)
Boards “director to watch” (oct 08)
Start magazine feature (sep 08)
Octocat related (sep 08)
Cartoon Brew, Motionographer, Design Related, Boards Mag
also: David Bourne and Encyclopedia Dramatica on Octocat
iHologram related (aug 08)
Gizmodo, Wired, Cartoon Brew, BoingBoing, Cultofmac,
also: Random French Girl, Founder of Digg
Create or Die feature (june 08)
AWN feature (may 08)
SHIFT feature (apr 08)
Die Gestalten Verlag feature (feb 08)
Sunday Times feature (feb 08)
Boingboing feature (jan 08)
Creative Review feature (jan 08)
Cartoon Brew piece (dec 07)
We Make Money Not Art feature (nov 07)
Talents Video (featured work) (07)
Stash Magazine (featured work) (mar 06)
AWARDS
(festivals)
Grand Prize – Kurzfilmtage Winterthur (2009)
Special Jury Commendation – Encounters (2009)
Special Mention – Animated Dreams Tallinn (2009)
Silver Dove – DOK Leipzig (2009)
Deutscher Kurzfilmpreis (2009)
Best Narrative Film – Ottawa (2009)
Special Jury Commendation – Filminute (2009)
First Prize for Best Short Film – Animadrid (2009)
The Cartoon D’or (2009)
High Risk Award – Fantoche (2009)
Special Distinction – Annecy (2009)
Best German Film – Oberhausen (2009)
Golden Bear for Best Short film – Berlinale (2009)
Best Animation – Darklight film festival (2008)
Best Animation – Curtas Vila do Conde (2008)
Special Mention – Berlinale (2008)
Special Mention – Prix Ars Electronica (2008)
(other)
Animation Magazine – Rising Star of Animation (2009)
Best Online Animation – Cartoon Brew (2008)
Boards Magazine “Director to Watch” (2008)
Creative Review – “Creative Future Award” (2008)
Creative Review – “One to Watch” (2006)
RES Magazine – Student 10 selection (2006)
Scholarship to Fabrica (2006)
LECTURES
Pixar (US) – January 2010
LIAA (CH) – December 2009
AHO Design (NO) – October 2009
SweetTalk (IE) – October 2009
Bangkok CG Plus (TH) – August 2009
DCA (UK) – May 2009
Republikken (DK) – April 2009
LYNfabrikken (DK) – March 2009
Pictoplasma (DE) – March 2009
Flatpack Festival (UK) – March 2009
Berlinale Talent Campus (DE) – February 2009
Kerry Film Festival (IE) – November 2008
Pictoplasma NYC (US) – September 2008
Irish Film Institute (IE) – July 2008
Darklight (IE) – June 2008
Backup festival (DE) – June 2008
Webinale (DE) – May 2008
Creative Futures (UK) – January 2008
Pictoplasma (DE) – November 2007
OFFICIAL SELECTIONS
(2010)
MIFF India, Sundance Film Festival, Portland Intl. Film festival, Anima Belgium, Clermont Ferrand Short Film Festival, Glasgow Film Festival, Planete Doc Review FF Warsaw
(2009)
Annecy, Rotterdam, Oberhausen, Detroit Short Film Festival, Floating World Animation festival, Pictoplasma, Courtisane, Jena, Summer Berlinale, Tweak festival, Circuito OFF, Sarajevo Film festival, PIFAN, ANIMANIMA, Sao Paulo intl. Short film festival, 25FPS, Hamburg Short film festival, OneDotZero, Atlantic Film Festival, KurzfilmFunk, Cartoon D’or, Animadrid, BKKIAF, Krok, Piff, Chicago Film festival, Beauvais Film Festival, Ottawa Animation Festival, Leipzig DOK, Oxcars, HAFF, Kurzfilmtage Winterthur, Brest film festival, Britspotting, Beirut Animated, Milano film festival, PIFF, Encounters Film Festival, Animateka, Castelli Film Festival, Skena Up
(2008)
Berlinale, AFI FEST, LA Film Festival, Sarajevo Film Festival, OneDotZero, Con-Can, Darklight, Pictoplasma (New York, Argentina), Akron Independent film festival, Era New horizons festival, Curtas Vila do Conde, Ars Electronica, Oberhausen, PIFAN Korea.
